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Harvard was a political and ecclesiastical rebel, but it has carried an English school tradition. In the late President Eliot it was almost a loyalty. With Mr. Lowell it may be an acute form of colonialism to which a part of New England is strangely and perversely addict. Hence, probably, the house idea at Cambridge which would cloister the young men in Boston suburb reproductions of Baliol, Magdalene, etc. There is an endowment available for one of them. A further projection of the idea is that the athletics of the university shall be principally contests between the houses...
According to latest reports the room space is so filled that almost 100 newcomers to the Business School will be forced to find lodgings elsewhere. This shortage of rooms and the increase in enrollment strongly testifies that the remarkable growth in prestige of the school is having its effect in the great demand for admission...
...Paul (three banks which were creditors of his bank).* Thus Waggoner had apparently not engineered his scheme for any personal profit, but had sacrificed himself for his bank, which for a long time had been faced with dwindling deposits and threatened collapse. The Bank of Telluride was gainer by almost a halfmillion; the six Manhattan banks were losers by a halfmillion...
...country and for Yale. No simple task has that been, especially since apes do not behave normally in captivity. To study them as best he could he once spent three weeks at Havana where a Se?ora Rosalie and a Se?ora Abreu have colonies of simians. Professor Yerkes' Almost Human (TIME, Dec. 14, 1925) reported his observations on ape intelligence. Chimpanzee Intelligence and Its Vocal Expressions is a related study. Last week he was in Africa collecting specimens for a purpose which Yale's President James Rowland Angell reluctantly (for fear of meddlesome publicity) told the psychologists. That purpose...
Getting dollars to replace pfennigs is almost as devious and difficult. The Graf Zeppelin was built by pfennigs. In 1925 the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin was virtually bankrupt. Two ships which it had built, the Nordstern and Bodensee (since wrecked) were confiscated by France and Italy for War damages. The Los Angeles the U. S. forced it to build. Dr. Eckener, great publicist,* organized the Zeppelin- Eckener Spends (gifts, alms) and despatched collectors with small boxes to German street corners, theatres, beer halls, to collect pfennigs from money-pinched patriots. The pfennigs totalled enough to build the Graf Zeppelin...